ChessBase Magazine Extra 182

3/14/2018 – 47.383 games played between December 2017 and February 2018. The Paulsen Variation in the Sicilian continues to be very popular. In one of the main lines – see the position in the diagram – Adrian Mikhalchishin suggests 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Qd4 (instead of 9.Na4). The Ukrainian top trainer analyses the game Wei Yi-Karthikeyan, Liaocheng 2017, which took a favourable course for White.

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3/19/2018 – Test your tactical ability with these positions grouped in rough order of difficulty. The games come from various recent events: Gibraltar, Moscow, Riyadh, etc.. Don’t forget that whilst sometimes the key move will force mate or the win of material, other times it will just win a pawn. Take your time analysing the positions, on our news page, assisted by a JavaScript chess engine.

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3/19/2018 – The new Endgame Turbo 5 offers reliable information to assess all 3-, 4-, and 5-piece endgames, plus 143 of the most important 6-piece endgames. The new turbo in Syzygy format is delivered on an USB stick and can also be used from this stick.

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